Web Information  Published: Immediate

• Published instantaneously
• Anyone can publish on the Web
• Interactive and multimedia

• Immediate distribution of information
• Multi-media
• No 'costs' to publish
• ability to share information
• searchability
• link to other document

• Hard to distinguish 'valid information
• Hard to locate specific information
• documents go away - not permanent

• Regional & National
• Covers everything from sports to finance

• Timely coverage -daily
• Permanent record
• Flexibility , Geographically selective

• Short lifespan
• take up a lot of space
• Hard to search to information

• Weekly news and current events
• targeted general public
• Covers the Who, What Where, How

• Good quality
• Physical document
• "Browsable'
• Permanent
• Briefer and easier to read than scholarly journals or entire books

• Costs money
• Limited reach and frequency
• Long lead time

• Written by experts in the field
• Studies, research
• usually include footnotes & bibliographies

• Referred, peer reviewed
• very few advertisement
• very current research

• Technical language, more complicated
• Can be very expensive

• General overview
• Short precise amounts of information

• Short, concise introduction to subjects
• Overall view
• Written by experts in the field

• Can be expensive
• Need to be purchased often

• Often takes more than a year to publish

• Portable, can be held in your hand to read
• Permanent record

• Single point of access
• Can be expensive
• Storage